Attachment for card tables



April 23, 1940. A. E. DREXEL ATTACHMENT FOR CARD TABLES Filed NOV. 5, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 l nuenit n M7 L7. Dre 1:6

Attorneys April 23, u DRE EL 2,198,408

ATTACHMENT FOR CARD TABLES Filed Nov. 3, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 T n r Inventor Patented Apr. 23, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFlcs 2,198,408 ATTACHMENT FOR GARD TABLES Adolph E. Drexel,

Daytona Beach, Fla.

Application November 3, 1938, Serial No. 238,696

4 Claims.

and serving of foods and beverages.

Briefly and broadly stated, the inventive conception developed out of a desire to conserve space and to perform new and useful results in an advantageous manner, to promote compact and convenient accommodation and to serve light meals from card tables and the like while comfortably playing bridge and other games of cards. Thus, in reducing to practice the preferred embodiment and underlying principles, I found it practical and expedient to perfect the invention as a collapsible attachment employable in a socalled overhead position on the table.

Other features and advantages will become more readly apparent from the following description and the accompanying illustrative drawings.

In the drawings, wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the pictorial views:

Figure l is a perspective drawing showing a fragmentary portion of a conventional folding card table, illustrating the detachable, foldable multiple purpose service assembly perfected in accordance with the structural principles of this invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged top plan View of the central or crown portion of the general assembly.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary detail sectional and elevational view depicting to advantage the miniature serving table or plate and hanger means therefor.

Figure 4 is a detail view of one corner of the card table showing the adaptersocket for one of the frame members or limbs.

Figure 5 is a detail view of one of said limbs disclosing to advantage the especially bent inner end thereof.

Figure 6 is a bottom plan View of one of the coiled or convolved drinking receptacle holders.

The essence of the invention is depicted to advantage in Figure l of the drawings. Here, the numeral 7 designates what may be called a conventional collapsible card table. It should be borne in mind in this connection, however, that the support for the attachment need not necessarily be a card table. types of tables possessed of variegated construction and appearance may be used in combination with the multiple utility ensemble or attachment. The latter part, in a unitary sense, is denoted by the numeral 8 and resembles an overhead That is to say, other harness arrangement applicable to and supported by the marginal portions of the table. By preference the corners of the table are provided with reinforcing. cornice clips 9 having openings registering with sockets If], these to accommodate ii the lower ends of the frame members. For convenience the members may be described as longitudinally bowed limbs H. In the arrangement seen in the drawings, four such frame members coordinate in providing the complete frame. O'b- 10 viously, however, more or less frame members may be utilized, depending on the shape of the table. While the limb may be of some other material, it is preferably in the form of an appropriately semi-rigid rod or the like. The inner end of each rod is laterally bent as at l2 and then directed in a horizontal plane as at 13, then bent down at M and finally bent into an assembling extension I5. In practice, the limbs or arms are employed in pairs and the opposed extensions are soldered or otherwise rigidly secured to the parallel assembling washers l6 and I1. That is to say, two of the arms are fastened to the under side of the top washer it. The remaining two arms are fastened to the top of the 5 lower washer l'l. This makes it possible to fold the limbs in pairs when the attachment is removed and stored away. Then too, the washers serve as an ideal support for a hanger rod Is, this being screw-threaded at opposite ends to accommodate wing nuts l9 and 213. A. spacing sleeve 2! surrounds the rod and is interposed between the washer l1 and the underlying miniature service table 22. The part 22 is of circular or other outline of configuration, and of appropriate dimension to facilitate stacking sandwiches and the like thereon. Incidentally the table 22, parallel above the main card table, is axially rotatable to function as a service tray. Thus we have a service table supported centrally over the card table.

On each limb I provide a receptacle or glass holder 23. This is a simple arrangement, the preferred embodiment being of convolved or 5 coiled form. The uppermost convolution is se cured as at M to the adjacent limb. The lower convolution is bent across the bottom as at 25, to facilitate holding the glass or other receptacle in the holder. Incidentally, the coils or convolutions are so planned and arranged as to permit them to nest together when two of the limbs are folded together at the time the device is detached and stored away for subsequent use. This is the aforesaid feature of compactness and convenience so desired in an adapter frame of this character.

The companion bends i2 and associated portions l3 coordinate in providing an additional holder for a plate or the like (not shown) if and when needed.

It is thought that the description taken in connection with the drawings will enable a clear understanding of the invention to be had. Therefore, a more lengthy description is thought unnecessary.

While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it is to be understood that minor changes coming within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to if desired.

I claim:

1. An attachment of the class described comprising a foldable frame structure including companion limbs, convolute receptacle holders on said limbs, the convolutions being prearranged to fold together in nested relationship.

2. In a structure of the class described, in combination, a supporting base embodying a leg supported horizontally disposable top, said top being provided at its corner portions with vertical sockets, metal reinforcing corner clips mounted on said top at the corners thereof, said clips having apertures registering with said sockets, an overhead frame structure including foldable frame members, the lower end portions of said frame members being vertically disposed and extending down through the apertures in said clips and into said sockets, and means on the respective frame members to accommodate and support drinking glasses.

3. A card table attachment of the class described comprising a foldable frame structure including a plurality of duplicate companion longitudinally bowed limbs, a pair of spaced parallel superposed washers, the inner adjacent ends of the respective limbs being interposed between and connected with the washers, and bolt and nut means assembling said washers in superposed relationship to permit relative turning of the washers and collapsing of the limbs into predetermined compact relationship and receptacle holding members attached to the intermediate portions of said limbs.

4. A receptacle holding card table attachment of the class described comprising a pair of spaced parallel superposed washers, a pair of duplicate companion longitudinally bowed limbs, the upper horizontally disposed ends of said limbsbeing rigidly secured to an adjacent face of one of said Washers, a second pair of duplicate companion longitudinally bowed limbs, the horizontal upper ends of the last-named limbs being rigidly secured to a faceyof the remaining washer, the end portions of all of said limbs within the vicinity of the peripheral edges of said washers 

